Published on Monday, April 23 2007
Reading Dion Almaer’s “Web 2. 0 Expo Was Poor?” (I couldn’t be there due to client commitments so I can’t comment myself) I noticed a comment from Brad Neuberg of the Dojo project.
He’s posted a video of the talk he gave at the expo: “Creating Offline Web Applications Within the Browser.” It describes in quite a bit of detail how to use the Dojo Offline Toolkit to enable offline use of Ajax applications.
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Published on Thursday, April 19 2007
Via FASTForward Blog comes a report from the Economist Intelligence Unit titled “Serious Business: Web 2.0 Goes Corporate” (registration required, but the report is free).
The report is based on a poll of 406 senior executives (globally) who were asked questions about the impact of Web 2.0 on their businesses.
Some key conclusions:
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Published on Thursday, April 12 2007
Ever since I first starting hearing about Adobe Apollo, I had a feeling there was more to the name than was apparent.
or 
?
Adobe wants you to believe that the name Apollo is a reference to the Apollo project, the series of NASA missions aimed at landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to Earth, a goal set by JFK that’s the point of the Apollo icon, with it’s orbital circle.
But I’ve decided the codename “Apollo” (Kevin Lynch has said that there will be a real release name which is different) is a disguised swipe at Ajax.
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Published on Tuesday, April 10 2007
I came across Dirk Riehle’s excellent article: “The Economic Motivation of Open Source Software: Stakeholder Perspectives” while reading the April issue of Computer on the train this morning.
Thankfully, he’s also put it online: “The Economic Motivation of Open Source Software: Stakeholder Perspectives”
Some interesting conclusions about system integrators:
Large system integrators, or solution providers, stand to gain the most from open source software because they increase profits through direct cost savings and the ability to reach more customers through improved pricing flexibility. Every dollar a system integrator saves on license costs paid to a software firm is a dollar gained that the customer might spend on services.
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Published on Monday, April 9 2007
David Sifry from Technorati has posted the latest State of the Blogosphere – except that now it is the “State of the Live Web.”
He notes that, in a change from the old State of the Blogosphere reports:
With this report, we expand on this tradition by introducing information and analysis relating to the broader range of social media on the Web — what we and many others call the Live Web (another good definition). Technorati continues to grow well beyond its roots at the leading blog search engine; increasingly, we are the main aggregation point for all forms of social media on the Web, including blogs, of course, but also video, photos, audio such as podcasts and much more.
It’s odd to me that the links for “Live Web” actually point to Linux Journal – I’d always though of “Live” as a kind of Microsoftism – to go with Windows Live Search, Live Spaces, Office Live, etc.
(According to Doc Searls, the “World Live Web” meme goes back to 2001 and was coined by Allen Searls – I know Doc has been using this distinction between Live web and Static web for some time.)
Anyway, some conclusions:
- 70 million blogs tracked, 120 thousand new ones each day
- Doubling now takes 320 days, not 180 (continued lengthening from last report)
- In Q4 2006, there were 22 blogs in the top 100 most popular sites, up from 12 in Q3 – there is an increasing overlap / mixture of “mainstream media” and “blog” audiences
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